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'''Edward Oakley Thorp''' (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, [[hedge fund]] manager, and [[blackjack]] pl ...te/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/47321%3Bjsessionid%3Daaa9har2OmrE7K |title=American Scientist online: Bettor Math, article and book review by Elwyn Berlekamp |

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...ere mathematics comes from, what it's about, and how it ought to be done. Mathematicians vary in their responses to these suggestions, and the search for true accou ...outset to distinguish the philosophy of mathematics from the philosophy of mathematicians. Philosophy of mathematics has its source in any moment that a person refl

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...he notion of representation that is usual in AI in cognitive science. But mathematicians and physicists reserve the status of representation to maps that are homomo ...several decades in the last century by C.S. Peirce, the founder of modern American pragmatism. Signs are defined pragmatically, not by any essential substanc